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To think o' the teen that I have turn'd you to,
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Which is from my remembrance! Please you, farther.
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PROSPERO:
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My brother and thy uncle, call'd Antonio--
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I pray thee, mark me--that a brother should
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Be so perfidious!--he whom next thyself
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Of all the world I loved and to him put
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The manage of my state; as at that time
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Through all the signories it was the first
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And Prospero the prime duke, being so reputed
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In dignity, and for the liberal arts
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Without a parallel; those being all my study,
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The government I cast upon my brother
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And to my state grew stranger, being transported
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And rapt in secret studies. Thy false uncle--
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Dost thou attend me?
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MIRANDA:
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Sir, most heedfully.
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PROSPERO:
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Being once perfected how to grant suits,
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How to deny them, who to advance and who
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To trash for over-topping, new created
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The creatures that were mine, I say, or changed 'em,
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Or else new form'd 'em; having both the key
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Of officer and office, set all hearts i' the state
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To what tune pleased his ear; that now he was
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The ivy which had hid my princely trunk,
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And suck'd my verdure out on't. Thou attend'st not.
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MIRANDA:
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O, good sir, I do.
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PROSPERO:
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I pray thee, mark me.
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I, thus neglecting worldly ends, all dedicated
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To closeness and the bettering of my mind
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With that which, but by being so retired,
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O'er-prized all popular rate, in my false brother
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Awaked an evil nature; and my trust,
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Like a good parent, did beget of him
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A falsehood in its contrary as great
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As my trust was; which had indeed no limit,
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A confidence sans bound. He being thus lorded,
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Not only with what my revenue yielded,
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But what my power might else exact, like one
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Who having into truth, by telling of it,
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Made such a sinner of his memory,
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To credit his own lie, he did believe
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He was indeed the duke; out o' the substitution
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And executing the outward face of royalty,
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With all prerogative: hence his ambition growing--
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Dost thou hear?
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MIRANDA:
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Your tale, sir, would cure deafness.
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PROSPERO:
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To have no screen between this part he play'd
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And him he play'd it for, he needs will be
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Absolute Milan. Me, poor man, my library
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Was dukedom large enough: of temporal royalties
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He thinks me now incapable; confederates--
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So dry he was for sway--wi' the King of Naples
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To give him annual tribute, do him homage,
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Subject his coronet to his crown and bend
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The dukedom yet unbow'd--alas, poor Milan!--
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To most ignoble stooping.
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MIRANDA:
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O the heavens!
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PROSPERO:
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Mark his condition and the event; then tell me
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If this might be a brother.
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MIRANDA:
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I should sin
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To think but nobly of my grandmother:
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Good wombs have borne bad sons.
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PROSPERO:
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Now the condition.
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The King of Naples, being an enemy
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To me inveterate, hearkens my brother's suit;
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Which was, that he, in lieu o' the premises
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Of homage and I know not how much tribute,
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Should presently extirpate me and mine
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Out of the dukedom and confer fair Milan
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With all the honours on my brother: whereon,
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A treacherous army levied, one midnight
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Fated to the purpose did Antonio open
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The gates of Milan, and, i' the dead of darkness,
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The ministers for the purpose hurried thence
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Me and thy crying self.
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MIRANDA:
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Alack, for pity!
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